Connecticut western news., 1887-11-16
OLEOMARGARINE.

In Argentine, Ark, laborers work fourteen hours day for seventy five cents. Dr Wm A. Hammond says there are 800 more doctors in New York than are needed
 The Cornwall people are talking of having a lecture course the coming winter
 The Methodist Church's contributions for missions last year amounted to $1,- CA, 797.
 Never holler mouse when you see lady climbing over fence or getting into wagon.
 It is said that IA, GOO members of soci- cites of Christian Endeavor have become church members.
 Gov. Oglesby of Illinois fought in the Mexican War, and was one of the Cali fornia gold diggers of '49.
 Mrs Nancy A. Russell of Waterbury, 94 years old, was burned to death on Thursday by her clothes catching fire.
 In Cambridge, Eng. butter is sold by the yard, pound of butter being rolled out into 8 stick yard long and sold in sections.
 There are now no Congregational church edifces in Canada, with 30, 221 sittings, representing total value of $679, 100.
 Colonel W. H. Stevenson has pur- chased the Fairfield residence of J. Jarvis Jones and will occupy 1t next spring.
 Gratitude iz word that you will find in the dictionarys, but yu will not find hutch ov it enny where else.- Josh Billings.
 The difference between some men and dog is that they will go into a saloon together, and the dog will come out perfectly sober.
 The man who sits down and waits to be appreciated will find himself among uncalled for baggage after the limited express has gone by.
 A party of tramps were found at Naugatuck last week dining on dog that had been cooked Exchange. Oh what whopper. Tramps ''are not built that way".
 Judge Stoddard of the superior court has resigned. He prefers to practice law and has made arrangements to form partnership with leading lawyer of the state.
 There is newspaper out in Colorado whose proprietor, editor and assistant are the only inhabitants of the place in which it is published. It claims to have the largest circulation in town.-[Ex.
 The boiler in Eighmie's shirt factory at Poughkeepsie, N. Y exploded at a quarter to eleven o'clock on Tuesday night Nov 8. Three men were killed by the explosion or burned to death in the fire that followed. Property worth $50,- 900 or more was destroyed. The statement of the Hartford and Connecticut western rilroads for the year ending September 30 shows gross receipts of $35O, ASA, ,38 increase $1 ,520; operating expenses $241, ,688, a decrease of $5, ,99O; net earnings $1O8, ,796, an in- crease of $7,5O0; net profits above charges S65, ,849.
 A compilation of the murders in Connecticut this year shows total of twenty-three. And nobody has been hanged yet for any of them;-Hartford Times. Nobody can be hanged in this state, anyway, till year after conviction One Fairfield County murderer has been tried, convicted and sentenced, but he cannot be hanged till his year is up. -[Bridge Standard. | The New Milford Gazette has increas- ed its job printing facilities by the ad- dition of new Hoe Cylinder Job Press which has capacity of 2.5O0 impress ions per hour Since Editor Bolles pur- chased the Gazette, several years ago, he has expended comfortable fortune in equipping every department of his business in first-class shape, and we hope his enterprise will be appreciated and that those who have formerly had all their book and pamphlet printing done in the cities will give him their patronage.
 The Winsted board of trade completed it's organization last week. It has nearly 100 members. The principal officers are; President Wm L. Gilbert; 1st Vice-Presi- dent G. B. Owen; 2nd Vice-President B. A. Nellis; Secetary and Treasurer, c. K. Hunt; Directors. David Strong, Wm l.. Camp, George H. Afford. Jas G. Woodruff, Alfred B. Moore, Eugene Potter, B. B. Gaylord, Chas B. Andrews, Henry Gay, C.B. Hallett, J. P, David son, w. B. Smith, o. D. Hunt, Henry G. Colt, T. 0. Richards, l.. R. Norton, T. M. Clarke.
 The first truss of the Poughkeepsie bridge was finished and swung clear on Monday Nov T. It is 525 feet long. be. tween centres of towers, 62 feet deep and 35 feet wide, being the largest and heaviest steel truss in the world. It rests on steel towers 100 feet high, which stand on masonry piers whose foundations are 125 feet below high water, and which rise 30 feet above high water, and the total height from found. ations is 337 feet. It carries 8 floor system on top for double track railway, and is capable of supporting a rolling load of 5000 pounds to the running foot on each track.
 New Milford narrowly escaped a confagration last Thursday afternoon. About o'clock fire was discovered in the roof of B. Bristol's barn in the rear of the New England House. The fire department responded promptly and worked vigorously. Luckily it was raining hard at the time and this pre- vented the sparks 1gnitlng the roofs o1 adjacent buildings. The fire was got un. der control after destroying Mir Bristol's barn and shed and George Beardsley' $ barn. Three horses belonging to M, Bristol and one horse belonging John Lake of Sherman were burned to death Three other horses were rescued but badly burned. Twenty tons of hay and several harnesses in the Bristol barn and six or seven tons of hay in the